Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPANGiven our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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